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        SUMMARY:Sociology Seminar: Barry Barnes\, University of Exeter
        DESCRIPTION:<b>	Social Order as Epistemic Order</b>\n\nThis talk has two main aims. One is to indicate what can be learned through the study of knowledge carriers\, and how in generating\, sustaining\, applying and extending knowledge[s] they engage in contingent collective action of great sociological interest. The discussion here is aligned with Barry Barnes' own research trajectory\, from its beginning fifty years ago with work on natural scientific knowledge to more recent work on the self referring knowledge we construct as we assign statuses to each other. The second aim is prompted by awareness that whilst independent individuals may have died out\, individualism has not\; it retains its dominant position in the social sciences.  He will try to indicate as he goes along how what is being said calls individualism into question\, so that there's no doubt that the fundamentals of that position are being challenge d. The basic point is a simple one: knowledge exists wherever humans do\; therefore individualism is wrong.\n\nBarry Barnes obtained degrees in Natural Sciences and in Sociology before taking a post in the Science Studies Unit\, in the Faculty of Science at Edinburgh University. In due course he became Director of the Unit and a Professor of Sociology in the University. In 1992 he moved to the established chair in the Dept of Sociology at Exeter University\, and was then a co-director of Egenis before retirement. Barry Barnes is known for his pioneering work on the sociological study of knowledge generation and evaluation in science\, and on the basis of the credibility of scientific expertise. He has also a longstanding interest in the fundamental problems of the social sciences\, particularly in collective action problems\, in status groups as generators of [exclusionary] collective action\, and in self-referring knowledge as constitutive of social order and systems of power. Since the mid-1990s he has been increasingly focusing his work upon the new human biotechnologies and their social and cultural significance.\n\nDate: 26 April 2017\nTime: 3:15  - 4:45 pm\nLocation: School of Sociology Seminar Room (D418 Newman)\n
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